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Child Psychology

  • 27 subtopics
  • 80 things to know
  • Component 03
  • Component 03 applied option, two chosen from four

What Child Psychology covers

Child Psychology is examined on component 03 of OCR Psychology, Applied psychology. It is one of the four applied options, of which a student studies two. 301 recall questions across 27 subtopics.

Where it is assessed

Component 03

Applied psychology, the third paper.

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The 27 subtopics

Each one has its own page.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Who and when

What is assortative mating, and what did the study find about it?

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What is myelination, and what does it achieve?

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Why does the adolescent brain's reward-versus-control account predict that risk-taking peaks in mid-adolescence rather than in childhood?

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What was the key neural finding?

Evaluation

Why do the findings suggest adolescent risk-taking is not simply irrational?

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How is habituation used to test what a baby can perceive?

Process

What is the high-amplitude sucking procedure?

Study

What did the visual cliff apparatus consist of?

Evaluation

Why can the study not prove that depth perception is innate in humans?

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Why should a visual toy for a newborn be black and white rather than pastel?

Evaluation

Give one limitation of play-based strategies for developing perception.

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Why does Vygotsky's theory encourage group work where Piaget's encourages individual discovery?

Process

In what order did the tutor escalate her help?

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What overall pattern was found in the amount and kind of help given?

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What does reduction in degrees of freedom mean?

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Why must scaffolding be pitched within the zone of proximal development?

Process

Define attachment.

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Describe the sequence of episodes.

Evaluation

Give one weakness of the Strange Situation relating to validity.

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Why does understanding persuasive intent matter?

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Who usually provides the voice-over in children's advertising?

Evaluation

Distinguish restrictive from active mediation, and say which is more effective.

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Distinguish fluid intelligence from crystallised intelligence.

Study

Which version of the test did the parents complete, and why a different one?

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Give one benefit and one risk of giving a child an IQ score.

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Why might a test given in English underestimate the ability of a child who has recently arrived in the country?

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Distinguish assimilation from accommodation.

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Explain the practical difference between waiting for readiness and teaching within the zone of proximal development.

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What is fading, and why is it essential to scaffolding?

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Distinguish deprivation from privation.

Evaluation

How could a nursery evaluate whether such a change has worked?

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How has children's exposure to advertising changed in recent years?

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Why did the researchers focus on verbs?

Evaluation

Besides analysing content rather than effects, what limits generalising from Johnson and Young's findings today?

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What do psychologists generally mean by intelligence?

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Why do researchers compare monozygotic and dizygotic twins when studying intelligence?

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Name two factors acting before birth that can lower a child's later intelligence.

Numbers

How many families took part in Van Leeuwen et al. (2008), and where were they from?

Numbers

What proportion of the variation in general intelligence did the best-fitting model attribute to genes?

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At roughly what age is the human brain fully mature?

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What part does dopamine play in adolescent risk-taking?

Numbers

A gamble offers a 50% chance of winning £20 and a 50% chance of losing £5. Calculate its expected value.

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Who took part in Barkley-Levenson and Galvan's study?

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Name one strategy that uses knowledge of brain development to reduce risk-taking in young people.

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Why do graduated licensing schemes restrict late-night driving?

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What is a schema in Piaget's theory?

Process

Name Schaffer and Emerson's stages of attachment in order.

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What is the internal working model?

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Who took part in Ainsworth and Bell's study?

Who and when

What did Ainsworth conclude was the source of these differences?

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Name one strategy for making an early years setting attachment friendly.

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What is pester power?

Who and when

What method did they use?

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What kinds of verbs characterised girl-oriented advertisements?

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What regulatory approaches have been used to protect children from advertising?

Who and when

What did Spearman mean by 'g'?

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A study reports a heritability of 0.7 for IQ in one country. Explain why this does not mean improving schooling is pointless.

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Who made up each of the families?

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Name one standardised test widely used to assess a child's intelligence.

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What happens to grey matter volume across adolescence?

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Give three risk-taking behaviours that become more common during adolescence.

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Why were the adults aged 25 to 30 rather than 18 to 24?

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What were the behavioural findings?

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Why do frightening information campaigns often fail with adolescents?

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How does perception differ from sensation?

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Who made up the human sample?

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How far from a newborn's face should a visual toy be placed, and why?

Process

Name Piaget's four stages in order with their approximate ages.

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Give two educational implications of Piaget's theory.

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What is retrieval practice?

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What is monotropy?

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What is affectionless psychopathy?

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Name the three attachment types Ainsworth identified.

Evaluation

Give one strength of the procedure.

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Why should staff turnover be kept low?

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How does social learning theory explain advertising's influence on children?

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What content typically appears in adverts aimed at girls?

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Into which categories were the toy advertisements sorted by target audience?

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What was found about the use of voice-overs?

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Why has online advertising made regulation harder?

Take Child Psychology further

The same content, four other ways.

Commonly confused

Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.

  • Fluid intelligence vs Crystallised intelligence

    Fluid intelligence: the capacity to reason and solve novel problems independently of learned knowledge. Crystallised intelligence: the store of knowledge and skill built up through experience and education.

  • Assimilation vs Accommodation

    Assimilation: fitting new information into an existing mental framework. Accommodation: changing an existing mental framework because new information will not fit.

  • Synaptic pruning vs Myelination

    Synaptic pruning: the removal of little-used connections, which makes the network more efficient. Myelination: the insulation of nerve fibres in a fatty sheath, which speeds up transmission.

Questions from this topic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    What do psychologists generally mean by intelligence?

    Model answer

    Intelligence is usually defined as the capacity to learn from experience, reason, solve problems and adapt effectively to a changing environment.

  2. 2

    What did Spearman mean by 'g'?

    Model answer

    Spearman's 'g' is a single general intelligence factor thought to underlie performance on every mental task, inferred from the finding that scores on very different cognitive tests all correlate positively.

  3. 3

    In Spearman's two-factor theory, what does 's' refer to?

    Model answer

    's' refers to the specific abilities demanded by one particular task, so performance on any test reflects both general intelligence and that task-specific skill.

  4. 4

    Distinguish fluid intelligence from crystallised intelligence.

    Model answer

    Fluid intelligence is the ability to reason and solve novel problems without relying on prior knowledge, while crystallised intelligence is the store of knowledge and skills built up through experience and education.

  5. 5

    Name three of the separate intelligences proposed by Gardner.

    Model answer

    Gardner proposed linguistic, logical-mathematical and bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence, among others.

  6. 6

    Name the three intelligences in Sternberg's triarchic theory.

    Model answer

    Sternberg proposed analytical, creative and practical intelligence.

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CThe regime that achieves one tends to undermine the other.

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Assemble a full-mark answer from its marking points, in the order an examiner wants them.

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Spot the fault in a statement. The traps are the mistakes students actually make.

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Child Psychology revision questions

What does Child Psychology cover in OCR A-Level Psychology?
27 subtopics: what psychologists mean by intelligence, biological factors affecting intelligence, van leeuwen et al. (2008) twin-family study of iq: background and procedure, van leeuwen et al. (2008) twin-family study of iq: results, conclusions and evaluation, assessing intelligence with standardised tests, brain development in childhood and adolescence, impact of brain development on risk-taking behaviour, barkley-levenson and galvan (2014) expected value in the adolescent brain: background and method, barkley-levenson and galvan (2014) expected value in the adolescent brain: results, conclusions and evaluation, strategies to reduce risk-taking using knowledge of brain development, perceptual development in children and animals, gibson and walk (1960) the visual cliff, play strategies to develop perception in young children, piaget's theory of cognitive development, impact of piaget, vygotsky and bruner on education, wood et al. (1976) the role of tutoring in problem-solving, cognitive strategies to improve revision and learning, development of attachment in babies, impact of failure to develop attachments, ainsworth and bell (1970) the strange situation: procedure and attachment types, ainsworth and bell (1970) the strange situation: insecure types, conclusions and evaluation, developing an attachment-friendly environment, influence of television advertising on children, stereotyping and materialism in children's advertising, johnson and young (2002) gendered voices in children's advertising: background and method, johnson and young (2002) gendered voices in children's advertising: results, conclusions and evaluation and strategies to reduce the impact of advertising aimed at children. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
How is Child Psychology organised?
By the OCR H567 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.

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